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From: Architexturez <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:15:53 +0530
Kings of the road
August 2007
ESS supplies structures to rock stars and Urban Salon is fascinated by
temporary architecture. When they collaborate, it’s quite a double act.
By Hugh Pearman
here is more than a touch of Mad Max about the headquarters of the
organisation known as ESS, or Edwin Shirley Staging. You step gingerly
off the London Docklands Light Railway at the lightly used stop known as
West Silvertown, and walk through an urban-fringe chaos. There are
factories here, making golden syrup and paint. Throat-catching fumes
waft about. There are large empty plots, various indeterminate
buildings, road and rail viaducts and an intermittent pavement blocked
at intervals by heaps of waste or random concrete blocks.
This is regeneration waiting to happen. There’s so much raw potential,
it hurts. But in the middle of all this, you will find a man who is much
in demand among architects. Jeff Burke is the king of the temporary
structure. He is on the inside track for the Olympics.
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